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60–63. As an alternative the height of the lamp-post may be measured in cubit in order. The nine kinds (of height) consisting of three in each of the smallest, and the other (the intermediate, and the largest) types, should begin from one cubit and end at two cubits, the increment being by three *aṅgulas*, or they may begin from one cubit and end at nine cubits, the increment being by one cubit.